Women’s Holocaust History

This is a selection of Academic Holocaust texts, which are either written by women or are specifically about the experience of women in the Holocaust. Texts which are available online are listed by website rather than original publication.

Deborah Dwork, “Agents, Contexts, Responsibilities: The Massacre at Budy”, in Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century, edited by Moishe Postone &amp; Eric Santer, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003)

Yasmine Ergas, “Growing up Banished: A Reading of Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum” in Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars, Margaret Randolph, Higgonet, Jane Jenson et al., pp. 84-95, (Yale University Press: New Haven,1987)

Myrna Goldenberg, “Testimony, Narrative, and Nightmare: The Experiences of Jewish Women in the Holocaust” in Active Voices, Women in Jewish Culture, edited by Maurie Sachs, pp.94-106, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995)

Myrna Goldenberg, “Lessons Learned from Gentle Heroism: Women’s Holocaust Narratives” in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: The Holocaust: Remembering for the Future, vol. 548, pp.78-93, (Thousand Oaks &amp; London: SAGE Periodicals Press, November 1996)

Atina Grossmann, “A Question of Silence: The Rape of German Women by Soviet Occupation Soldiers” in Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted or Without Consent, edited by Nicole Ann Dombrowski, pp. 162-183, (New York: Garland Publishers Inc, 1999)

Anna Hardman, “Representations of the Holocaust in Women’s Testimonies” in The Holocaust and the Text: Speaking the Unspeakable, edited by Andrew Leak & George Paizis, (Great Britain: MacMillan Press, 2000)

Andrea Reiter, “The Holocaust as Seen through the eyes of Children” in The Holocaust and the Text: Speaking the Unspeakable edited by Andrew Leak & George Paizis, (Great Britain: MacMillan Press, 2000)

Karen Remmler, ‘Gender Identities and the Remembrance of the Holocaust’, Women in German Yearbook, pp. 167-187, (vol. 10, 1994)

Joan M. Ringelheim, & Esther Katz, ed., Proceedings of the Conference on Women Surviving: The Holocaust, (New York: The Institute for Research in History, 1983)

Arlene Stein, “Anne Frank and the American Culture War: The Sexual Politics of Holocaust Memory” in Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide edited by John K. Roth & E. Maxwell, (MacMillan, 2001)

Nechama Tec, Resilience and Courage: Women, Men and the Holocaust, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003)

Annemarie Troger, “German Women’s memories of World War Two” in Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars, edited by Margaret Randolph Higgonet, Jane Jenson et al., (Yale University Press: New Haven. 1987)